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En bref
Comunalidad is a way of naming and describing the daily practice of coexistence in an autonomous collectivity, in the service of everyone, as practiced in the indigenous communities of Oaxaca, Mexico.
In the community there is no individual statement, only collective conglomerate producers of communal statements.
— Xtobako (Pablo Cruz), Yagavila, Oaxaca
Origines
Coined by Floriberto Díaz, Mixtec thinker, and Jaime Martínez Luna, Zapotec teacher, anthropologist, and musician.
Comunalidad (communality) is an autonomous community expression of the life of the Zapotec peoples in the Sierra Norte region of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, and of numerous other non-indigenous rural communities. Communal life in these places is not just a coercive connection to a territory, but the real and symbolic process of a community exercising its political autonomy.
Communal life takes place in a territory considered sacred, composed of people, nature and supernatural forces whose relations are based on myths and other ritually mediated narratives. This territory, as as a common good, is where one learns the sense of comunalidad, and the oral storytelling that describes it is what allows anyone to be able to understand and discuss issues related to the community.
The practice of comunalidad centers around four pillars of communal life: communal governance via the popular assembly; communal territory, or land held in common; communal celebration, or feast days; and communal work for the benefit of the whole. Comunalidad originates from the history of dispossession and extreme colonial exploitation of land, but its defense right now, as a form of production and life, stands as a real alternative of resistance against the new cycle of neoliberal capitalist accumulation.
Exemples du monde réel
The education reforms are an attack on indigenous cosmologies that involve comunalidad and interculturarildad.